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When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me? : Montaigne and being in touch with life / Saul Frampton.

by Frampton, Saul.

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New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.

9780375424717 (hc.) :

0375424717 (hc.)

300 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

1st American ed.

Waking to the sound of a spinet -- Because it was him, because it was me -- To jump or duck at the bang of an arquebus -- To philosophize is to learn to die -- Que sçais-je? -- What do I know? -- When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me? -- To rub and polish our brains with others -- The philosopher's stone -- The exercises of Venus -- The touch of a familiar hand -- A dog, a horse, a book , a glass -- Of experience.

Saul Frampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, Michel de Montaigne, whose essays went on to have a huge impact on figures as diverse as Shakespeare, Emerson, and Orson Welles, and whose thoughts, even today, offer a guide and unprecedented insight into the simple matter of being alive.

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